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Beadle Lake, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Emmett Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49014. It stands on Barnum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Battle Creek quadrangle.

Beadle Lake within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

58 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Beadle Lake between 2018 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 7 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Smoking7
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT TOWNSHIP DPS 01205 - 2019
22 September 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT TOWNSHIP DPS 00971 - 2020
21 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 05331 - 2018
2 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEWTON TOWNSHIP FD 00140 - 2018
13 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 05179 - 2018
8 August 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT TOWNSHIP DPS 00986 - 2019
21 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 05036 - 2019
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 03770 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Beadle Lake: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Calhoun Co Pit Bill Smith S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Calhoun County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hoffman Brothers Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rays Aggregates CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beadle Lake in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2020HailBeadle Lake$100,000Hail up to an inch and a half in diameter was reported.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBeadle Lake-A trained spotter four miles southeast of Battle Creek reported estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
January 2008HailBeadle Lake-A trained spotter reported three quarters inch diameter hail near Beadle Lake.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sunrise Heights2.5 miles18
Old Mill Gardens2.6 miles18
Wattles Park3.1 miles18
Stanley Corners3.5 miles14
Brownlee Park3.6 miles18
Lakeview3.9 miles18
Battle Creek4.0 miles18
Verona Park4.4 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 620811. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.